There's No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence
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HN comment orderI've been around AI since the end of the last big hype in the late 80s. The recent leap in machine learning has felt rather hyped to me. I don't think AGI is near. But I find myself agreeing with this article. Strongly. And I have long suspected that, we miss a lot of the significance and opportunities in AI, because we have only one exemplar of 'higher' intelligence: a human being. AI folk are so concerned with getting computers…
A few things here immediately reminded me of an article I recently read about how, regardless of whether or not SARS-CoV-2 was "created" in a lab, the knowledge and tools for such genetic engineering have reached the point where it would have been no great feat to do so. > Progress is driven by peak knowledge, not average knowledge. The cutting-edge researchers are already building on their work from two years ago, and in many cases that work has not…
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-10-14 | There's No Fire Alarm for Artificial General IntelligenceFirst breakout · Best thread | MBlume | 219 | 206 |
| 2019-02-04 | There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence (2017) | headalgorithm | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-10-20 | There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence | ZhuanXia | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-06-03 | There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence (2017)Latest 20+ point return | DarkCow | 111 | 123 |
| 2022-08-22 | There's No Fire Alarm for Artificial General IntelligenceHall induction | behnamoh | 4 | 0 |
| 2023-11-20 | There's No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence (2017) | ntonozzi | 2 | 0 |